Dictionary of Welsh Biography

STEPNEY family Prendergast, The family was founded by Alban Stepney, a Hertfordshire man and son of Thomas Stepney of S. Albans by his wife Dorothy, daughter of John Winde of Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. Educated at Cambridge and Clement's Inn, it is said that he came to Wales as a young lawyer in the employ of bishop Richard Davies during the visitation of 1559. On 31 December 1561 the bishop appointed him receiver-general of
STRADLING family Cyprus on his way home. He had married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William ap Thomas of Raglan. Jane, one of their daughters, married Miles ap Harry, and had Blanche Parry as grand-daughter. The heir, THOMAS STRADLINGE, died 1480, under 26 years of age. His wife was Jenet, daughter of Thomas Mathew of Radyr, and afterwards wife of Sir Rhys ap Thomas. During this period the family became more prominent
SYMMONS family Llanstinan, which, by the influence of his friend William Windham, that of the adjoining rectory of Lampeter Velfrey was added in 1794; he received the prebendal stall of Clydey in the cathedral church of S. Davids on 11 October 1789. He married, 1779, Elizabeth (died 1830), daughter of John Foley, Ridgeway, Pembrokeshire, and sister of Sir Thomas Foley. Among the five children of the marriage were Caroline and
SYMONDS, RICHARD (1609 - ?), Puritan preacher He was born at Abergavenny, 1609, the son of Thomas Symonds, and very probably a relative of the Nicodemus Symonds who was one of the chief citizens. He went to Exeter College, Oxford, matriculating in 1627, graduating B.A. in 1629. Baxter says that Symonds about 1635 kept school in Shrewsbury, that he himself was one of his pupils, that the master gave harbour to Walter Cradock when he had to
TALBOT family Margam Abbey, Penrice Castle, It was by marriage with a Mansel of Margam - see Mansel family of Margam and Penrice - that a member of the Wiltshire family of Talbot became connected with Glamorgan. JOHN IVORY TALBOT of Lacock Abbey, who married MARY MANSEL, daughter of Thomas Mansel (died 1723), 1st baron Mansel. THOMAS TALBOT, cleric, son of this marriage, became eventually, through his mother, and on the death (1750) of his
TALIESIN (fl. second half of the 6th century), bard or so; if any of the genuine work of Taliesin has survived it is probably to be found in these. J. Gwenogvryn Evans has provided scholars with a fine edition of the manuscript, The Book of Taliesin (1910); this is henceforth the definitive text. He went astray badly in his introduction and his notes, but it is well to have a text in which line after line are faithful copies of the original, for
TELFORD, THOMAS (1757 - 1834), civil engineer
THELWALL family Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, , son of Eubule ap Simon ap Dafydd ap John Thelwall Hen, and his wife Margaret, daughter of Ieuan ap Dio ap Meredydd of Llangar. Their son JOHN WYN THELWALL (1528 - 1586) married Jane (died 12 December 1585) daughter of Thomas Griffith of Pant y Llongdy in Tegeingl. Of their ten children, a few deserve particular mention. JOHN THELWALL (1533 - 1630) The oldest, was brought up at court as 'Groom of the
THICKENS, JOHN (1865 - 1952), minister (Presb.), historian and author Born 9 March 1865 at Abernantcwta, Cwmystwyth, Cardiganshire, son of David and Sarah Thickens. His father died when he was young, and his mother moved with the family to Pentre, Rhondda Valley. There, in Nazareth chapel, he began to preach, and he trained for the ministry at Trefeca College. He was ordained in 1894, and that year he married Cecilia Evans of Dowlais (sister of Sir David W. Evans
THOMAS family Coed Helen (or Alun), Aber, RICE THOMAS (died 1577) the founder of this family's fortune in Caernarvonshire, was a son of Sir WILLIAM THOMAS, Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1541-2. Rice married Jane, daughter of Sir John Puleston of Caernarvon and widow of Edward Gruffydd of Penrhyn, who had died at Dublin in 1540. He was appointed by Roger Williams, the surveyor of crown lands in North Wales, to
THOMAS family Wenvoe, This family, which became prominent in the 17th century, was descended from the Harpways of Herefordshire. According to G. T. Clark (Limbus Patrum, 445) JEVAN HARPWAY, or 'ap Harpway,' of Tresiment, Herefordshire, married CATHERINE, daughter and heiress of Thomas ap Thomas of Wenvoe Castle, Glamorganshire. Their great-grandson was, EDMUND THOMAS (1633 - 1677) Politics, Government and Political
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